Questions tagged [object-oriented-design]
Object-oriented design is the process of planning a system of interacting objects for the purpose of solving a software problem.
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is there a two-way (bidirectional) observer pattern?
I have two classes. "System" and "Bluetooth". I want to have a really loose coherency between these two classes as they should be able to exist or not without depending on each ...
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Verbs in Use Case name "Create User" [closed]
I'm struggling on how to name classes for use cases. Because I know that is "bad" to use verbs in classes names(Uncle Bob) but at the same time names of use case classes should explain what ...
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Best way to refactor service with too many dependencies
We are creating the backend for a web app using a sort of layered architecture. The service layer is supposed to handle the business logic and passing data to the repositories. This service layer is ...
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Encapsulation dilemma: should age operations depend on external dates outside the object?
A few days ago I stumbled upon a silly "problem" that made me reflect about encapsulation and OOP design.
I have a class called User that has a method hasMinimumLegalAge() that checks if the ...
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Design: Designing a Status Tracking Tool
We have a robust set of micro-services available.
For simplicity, let us call the services
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For simplicity, think of the flow to be this.
S1 -> performs step1 (start step)
S2 -> ...
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Do db calls in constructors lead to more DRY code?
It recently came to my attention that its best practice to avoid database calls in constructors. I feel like this means you end up repeating unnecessary code, thus the code is less DRY?
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Difference between `Class.X` and `Class.getX()`?
Might be a silly question or something I might have just messed up in my head but here we go...
I saw a code example of someone using getPos() in their own class to retrieve the current position of an ...
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How can I split tightly coupled code in an OOP language?
So I've a class that is some kind of wrapper of a state machine for a multipart upload and it's database writes/reads. Everytime something is uploaded via REST basically the following happens
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Today I wrote "tests" for the testing code. Was it the right thing? Is it a smell?
My application has big integration with the database. Classes that use the database are very crucial for the system, so I write small unit tests for classes that I call Repository. The reason behind ...
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Class Constructor that Takes Two Arguments of the Same Interface - But Order Matters
I'm getting ready to release a feature to production tomorrow & feel I have misdesigned said feature. I'll try to explain my scenario clearly. I'm looking for alternative design suggestions to ...
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Why is inheritance bad in a Person-Student model?
I've just started learning about Inheritance vs Composition and it's kind of tricky for me to get my head around it for some reason.
I have these classes:
Person
class Person
{
public string Name {...
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Are there any legitimate use cases for protected visibility?
Protected visibility in languages like C++, Java or PHP is a strange beast: it makes fields and methods accessible in subclasses, but not in code completely outside the class.
It strikes me as ...
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What is the middle ground between understanding basic OOP concepts (inheritance, composition, aggregation) and design/architectural patterns?
I've been coding in python for about 6 years now. I am proficient enough to understand a good amount of the language features. When I look into source code for a number of libraries such as pandas or ...
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Is having a big class always considered bad OOP design? [closed]
So I have this distributed game im working on(for some time now). A part of the world is considered a Chunk object. This object is composed of many other objects/components that are necessary and a ...
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In an effort to design small aggregates, have you tried making every aggregate the aggregate root? You'd need to refactor afterwards, of course
I'm currently designing a DDD system, and it is a reference implementation. The reference is a big ball of mud. I'm finding myself spending a fair amount of time determining aggregate roots and the ...
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Composite Pattern get part of the tree
I use java and I have structure with a class that contains id, title and perhaps some children of the same class. So I decided to use the composite pattern.
I need to have a method getChildren() that ...
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Type checking, multiple functions and how to overcome function parameter names?
I have a search function. This function takes 4 different parameters that can be either a list of strings or a string. For each parameter, if it's a string I convert it to a list of strings.
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Where do methods in class diagrams come from?
In a class diagram, how do I know what methods to add? I’m not sure what the connection is between methods and other (i.e. Activity and User Case) diagrams. My guess is that methods can come from ...
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How to solve reacting to events from different sources which have a common source
I find it difficult to explain but I'll give it a try. I have a module structure where the modules can fire events and other modules respond to them.
As you can see, B & C are listening to events ...
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UML Composition parent multiplicity
The Wikipedia article on the Composite Design Pattern includes the following diagram:
As you see, there is an association relationship which is child 0..* – 1 parent.
However, given that:
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Better to store references to an object, or to store its ID and retrieve it with a hashMap
Given the classes:
public class SocialNetwork
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private final Map<String, User> users;
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public class User
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private final String user;
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Difference between Front Controller and Mediator patterns [closed]
I was reading about these patterns and noticed that they seem to be basically the same, but in different contexts? If that's the case, why isn't Front Controller just considered as a Mediator pattern ...
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Design classes to model 3D scanned faces of ancient Greek/Roman sculptures: is multiple inheritance a good design solution?
I would like to deepen the topic of multiple inheritance using Python and I usually find examples that are too simple. I love art and I imagined the following problem and I want to understand if ...
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Procedural configuration code to object oriented code
Lets say we have an Webserver-Framework and a Database-Framework, and now i want to configure that Webserver and the Database, then it could look like the following
class Start
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public static ...
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OOPS Relationship between Soccer Field and Soccer Player
I am trying to design a simple Soccer game. To keep things simple, I am having a SoccerField to represent the field and a Player class to represent an individual.
A SoccerField will contain a list of ...
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What behaviours to put in and out of a class
Let's say I have a class modeling some kind of object, for example a graph (in the graph theory sense).
I will have the graph structure and data inside the class, but what about other more complex ...
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State Pattern when the Behavior in Object of Type A is Dependent on the State of the Object of Type B
I have used the state pattern for my web application where a user can be in one of three states: activated, required_activation and suspended. I have created 3 states classes as given below (source is ...
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Why is `replace(dataclass, **kwargs)` a function, and not a member?
Imagine a simple data class:
@dataclass
class Settings:
m: int
s: str
old = Settings(m=10, s="ten")
It feels normal to write new = old.replace(m=1), but we have to write new = replace(...
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Best Practice for Populating Objects in Python
So I am pulling data (list of JSON) from an API and want to parse it into Python objects. However the JSON objects of my list returned from my API need to be transformed a bit to fit into my object. I ...
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Design consideration-To add or not to add a related variable in a class
I need something clarified. I have been having a discussion with someone and we have conflicting arguments. Hence, I came here to ask looking for your insights.
Say we have to implement our own stack ...
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Splitting nested entities keeping invariant within aggregates
I'm currently developing message imap-based module in crm app and i'm trying to connect dots using ddd principals.
I've started with three main entities, all bound under Account Aggregate:
Account - ...
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Different Aggregate Root States in Domain Driven Design
I have read the Domain Modeling Made Functional book.
In the book, the author model the Order in 3 different states:
Unvalidated
Validated
Priced
The 3 states have different properties.
But it's ...
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Interface design for container that holds different instances derived from a common type
I'm currently designing an interface for a container that is supposed to store references of different instances that derived from a common supertype. An analogy of it would be as following:
Suppose ...
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Is it a code smell to have two different implementations of the builder design pattern, for the same model?
Shoutout to David Arno for teaching me about the builder design pattern via this thread!
I have since used that pattern althroughout the code base to abstract out creating models from data stores, ...
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Connecting classes by passing method references
I am trying to find a good way of allowing two objects that are separated by a intermediate object to communicate while keeping the architecture loosely coupled. A solution I have developed is to pass ...
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How best to deal with growing polymorphic interfaces?
Consider the following scenario in an object-oriented environment. Sample code is in C++, but it could be any OO language.
A software must control an external device, say a TV. From the start you know ...
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Is it a bad practice to have an interface method to tell whether it can handle an object?
interface Resolver {
boolean canResolve(SomeInput input);
SomeOutput resolve(SomeInput input);
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
List<Resolver> resolvers = ...;
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What we called this design pattern and it is same as strategy pattern?
abstract class BaseService {
public void doSomething();
}
class AService extends BaseService {
public void doSomething(){
// Do something...
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class BService extends BaseService {
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State Pattern: Changing object behavior based on more than one field and consistency between their values and state value
I'm Trying to learn about State Pattern.
In most of State Pattern examples that I have seen, methods of class change their behavior based on just one field (I mean before applying State Pattern and I'...
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Not sure what to call this "builder" I created
I have written some code in Katalon Studio (known as "custom keywords") whose job is to map the rows of a Data File to models for testing. Say goodbye to hardcoded column indices and ...
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Having multiple classes that share the same instance variables for context consistency
I am wondering if it is an acceptable approach to pass instance variables from one object to an object of another class (saving them as instance variables as well) in order to retain the context that ...
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Design for three classes with partially shared logic
I am looking for a suitable design which uses composition to allow three classes to share some logic.
The problem I am solving is that I have to read 3 different json configuration files from my ...
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Exposing multiple classes from the representive package for one entity
I have a simple app for storing the movies, that exposes REST API. I am using spring-boot. I am using this simple app as an example, however, the question is more about general good practice.
I am ...
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Single Responsibility Principle, Inheritance
I have the following interface:
class IHittable
{
virtual Intersections intersects(const Ray & ray) = 0
}
which will be implemented by various geometric objects(Spheres, Triangles etc).
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DDD Value Objects: when is enough enough? [duplicate]
Where do you like to draw the line for modeling a single value as a Value Object v.s. a primitive? For example if I have an internal order number and a customer order number, would you model them both ...
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Model updating itself in MVC?
My group in school is tasked with creating an application of our own choosing which follows good object oriented design principles. The group has chosen to make a tower defense game with help of ...
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Design class with different dependency requirements based on configuration
I’m struggling a bit to design the following class:
It’s a service class with multiple methods. It depends on a http client interface which must be created in the factory method and can’t be passed ...
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Why are C++ "complex" functions not member functions?
I was looking at the C++ library <complex>, and noticed that functions such as std::conj and std::norm are free functions i.e. static functions not placed inside the std::complex class. Why is ...
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Is casting between interfaces the best approach for capability discovery when using interface inheritance?
It’s frequently taught that downcasting is bad practice. I have a case where it seems necessary, but I’m wondering if there is an alternative way to design this. Suppose interfaces are kept small ...
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Definition of static property of object in OOP
Grady Booch in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications says:
The state of an object encompasses all of the (usually static) properties of the object plus the current (usually dynamic) ...
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